The Farini Waltzes, by R Coote

Promotional music sheet for The Farini Waltzes of circa 1860s by R. Coote. The Great Farini (real name William Leonard Hunt) was famous as a trapeze artist. El Nino was a boy he adopted and with whom he performed, as shown here. The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive

Acrobat Coote Jan19 Marketing Trapeze Waltzes

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